If you’re looking for an entertaining film to catch this week-end, let “The Spiderwick Chronicles” be it.

Breaking tradition, we decided to spend Valentine as a family and trooped to the movies to catch L’s current “obessesion” if you can call it that — “The Spiderwick Chronicles”. I thought that I would doze off after the first 15 minutes but hey, I sat up and was fully into it after the first five minutes! I haven’t had as much FUN watching a child’s film and enjoyed this one so much more than the Harry Potter series. Adults and children will appreciate the film on many levels. I liked the theme where good triumphs over evil but I also liked the allusions to heaven. The movie is also a visual delight.

Go and see it to fully appreciate the magic and wonder of this well-crafted film. You will be a child again, albeit momentarily. P and I were so involved in it that we wondered out loud if we could take Thimbletack home